TurboTax for the Web did this last year in the US - mozilla worked fine but they sensed it out of the way. I and others posted complaints to the bug section about it and the sensing mysteriously disappeared. It didn't come back this year. You might try the same (although if 4/15 is the deadline in Canada too then time is short!).
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David P James wrote: > Dan Hunt was roused into action on 2003-04-03 20:23 and wrote: > >>[snip] > >>On the plus side, the Canadian version of TurboTax, QuickTax, does not > >>appear to employ the strange things that its US counterpart. My father > >>installed it on his comp and I could find no trace of the rumored nasty > >> stuff (moreover, Intuit denies that it exists in the Canadian > >>version). > > > > > > Great! My Micro$oft work computer is safe, from the evil nasty stuff. I'm > > gonna sleep better tonight boy. > > For next year, I would LOVE to find a Canadian tax program or web based > > service I could use with Mozilla - and Debian GNU/Linux. > > The web based version of QuickTax gave me: YOU NEED "Microsoft Internet > > Explorer 4.0 or later on Windows or Netscape 4 or later on Windows or > > Macintosh." Would tricking the browser test be morally wrong? > > Issues of morality aside, it is possible to trick their browser sniffer, > but you have to replace all the Linux-related stuff in the UA with > Windows-related bunk. I also added a Netscape 7 identifier (this was > with Phoenix, btw). It will then warn you about not having Quicktime, > but it will allow you to go past without spurious multimedia content. I > got as far as the page of filling out info. > > There is a second way - bypass the browser sniffer altogether and skip > to the step following the sniffer: > https://2002.quicktaxweb.ca/secure/signin_choice > > It doesn't seem to mind > hee hee :) > > > How would I ask the Canadian Web based Income Tax program providers to > > support Mozilla and GNU/Linux? > > Well, the good news is that Mozilla/Gecko in a GNU/Linux environment is > "supported" in the sense that it will work. The bad news is that they > have a browser sniffer reduntantly sniffing out against usable browsers. > > I'm sending them a comment on the subject. Netscape has a very good > webpage about this sort of thing: > > http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/browser-detection/ > > There is also the possibility of filing an evangelism bug on > bugzilla.mozilla.org as well. > > -- > David P. James > 4th Year Economics Student > Queen's University > Kingston, Ontario > http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ > > I have said clearly that at a moment such as this Canada must, > and must be seen to, speak with one voice. That is the voice > of our Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. > -Paul Martin, Fmr. Finance Minister & Liberal Leadership Hopeful > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
